| Acronym | Meaning |
| CVAFS | Cold Vapor At. Fluorescence Spectrometry |
| PWBE | Plane-wave Born Approxn. With Exchange |
| IAPSO | International Association For The Physical Sciences Of The Ocean (ICSU) |
| CCF | Correlation Crystal Field |
| SMT | Standards |
| HMSA | Hybrid Mean Spherical Approximation |
| CPAC | Center For Process Analytical Chemistry |
| ACD | Atmospheric Chemistry Division |
| HRS | Hyper-Rayleigh Scattering |
| LPMA | Laser-probe Microanalysis |